The
Grutter v. Bollinger Decision:
The Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the University of Michigan Law School. The
majority opinion stated that the Law School's admissions policy "aspires to
achieve that diversity which has the potential to enrich everyone's education
and thus make a law school class stronger than the sum of its parts...The policy
does not define diversity solely in terms of racial and ethnic status. Nor is
the policy insensitive to the competition among all students to make unique
contributions to the character of the Law School." Citing the Bakke decision,
the Court held that diversity could be a compelling state interest for the Law
School to use race as a potential plus factor in its admissions process.
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